On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, Minneapolis lost one of its most enduring landmarks--the Weatherball...
Twin Cities Area
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
The serene group of cottages around a horseshoe-shaped drive that we see today was not the first...
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Saint Paul Hotel
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
Robbinsdale Library
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
The Gates of Stonebridge
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
Wonderland Amusement Parkโs Glass Castles
The Swinford Apartments
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
Landmark Center In St Paul
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Wilder Public Baths
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
The Eight Days in May Protests
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
The Swinford Townhomes
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
The Womanโs Club of Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
St. Agathaโs Conservatory of Music and Art
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
Greater Minnesota
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
In the late-1880s, a benefactor in St Louis offered to purchase land in Lake City for the Ursuline...
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
For several years, Tenney held the distinction of being Minnesotaโs smallest town. The 2010 census...
Hollywood Town Hall
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Little Falls Depot
Florence Town Hall
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Visiting Golden Gate
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Historic Wasioja
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Munger Terrace In Duluth
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
The End of the Line in Currie
The Le Sueur Theater
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
Welcome to Hanska
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Enter Marlon Brando
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Endion School In Duluth
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Welcome To Dotson
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Endion Depot In Duluth
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Welcome To Old Wadena
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Red Wing Iron Works
District 6 School in New Sweden
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
Lundring Service Station in Canby
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
State Theater In Hutchinson
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Almelund Creamery
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Bend in the River Regional Park
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
Moderne New Ulm Library
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Oxford Mill Ruin
The Old School In Wolverton
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Meyer School In St Augusta
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
The Milford Monument
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Ruins of Sawyer School
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Old Brewery In Preston
Joseph R. Brownโs Little Castle on the Prairie
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
Exploring Sandstone
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Finding The Past In Swatara
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Remembering Quadna Resort
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
The Duluth Homestead Project
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The Little Marais Inn
The Church of the Holy Cross
Exploring Ottawa
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Historic Franconia
Jordan Brewery Complex
Swensonโs General Store in Norseland
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Welcome To Cobden
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Lost Highway 61
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Moving Old Hibbing
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
District 48 School Near Delano
Hanover Bridge
Green Lake Mounds
Dead Good Walks
Golden Gate Cemetery
The little town of Golden Gate, Minnesota, sprang up around John Heimerdingerโs grist mill in the...
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
The only thing scary about Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan is the state of the oldest part of the...
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindstrรถm
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
Chippewa City Cemetery
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Minnesotaโs biggest baby was born on July 16, 1936. At birth, the baby boy--later named Jacob...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Roadtrips
Gravel Train Wreck Near Atwater
On June 24, 1882, at around 3:00 p.m., St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad Number 43 train...
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who donโt...

